Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 20, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Lou Dates Mary
Season 7, episode 23 W: David Lloyd D: Jay Sandrich With John Reilly (Jake). Fed up with the men she has been dating, Mary decides that Lou Grant has the qualities she has been looking for in a man, and asks Lou to take her out. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/12/1977)
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| [ABC 8:00] Fish [Reg]: The Neighbors
Season 1, episode 7 W: Norman Barasch, Roy Kammerman, Howard Ostroff D: Noam Pitlik With Howard Honig (Mr. Lester), K Callan (Mrs. Lester), Joseph V. Perry (Mr. Kellin), Queenie Smith (Mrs. Baumholtz). When some of the neighbors complain about having "problem" children in their midst, the Fish menagerie decides to throw an open house. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/26/1977)
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: Computer Terror
Season 6, episode 9 W: Bruce Shelly D: Georg Fenady With Russ Grieve, Walt Davis, Zitto Kazann. Paramedic Gage is the bewildered and frustrated recipient of a payroll check erroneously made out by a computer for thousands, rather than hundreds, of dollars. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/4/1976)
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| [CBS 8:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Enter Mrs. Peeper
Season 5, episode 1 W: Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr D: Michael Zinberg With Tom Poston (Cliff Murdock), Charles Thomas Murphy (Messenger), Jay Tarses (Waiter), Jean Palmerton (Corrine Murdock). The fifth season starts with Bob having mixed emotions when his old college chum shows up with a new bride. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1976)
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| [ABC 8:30] Sugar Time! [Reg]: Witty, Urbane And Erudite
Season 1, episode 2 With Murray Matheson (DeForest). Maxx suffers bruises to her ego when a newspaper critic gives the Sugar act a rave review but dismisses Maxx as being not too bright.
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| [CBS 9:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Archie, The Hero
Season 6, episode 4 W: Lou Derman, Bill Davenport D: Paul Bogart With Billy Halop (Bert Munson), Lori Shannon (Beverly LaSalle), Sandy Kenyon (Jim Kitchener), Bob Hastings (Tommy Kelsey). Archie's quick thinking saves the life of a woman, but he is soon horrified to learn that the woman he saved is no lady. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/29/1975)
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| [ABC 9:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Long Walk Down A Short Dirt Road
Season 2, episode 23 W: Edward J. Lakso D: George McCowan With Lynn Anderson (Sue Ann Grainger), Joshua Bryant (Jerry Tabor), Dick Haynes (Cal Claybourne), Scatman Crothers (Fireball). A pretty country singer is plagued by phone calls from a raspy-voiced stranger demanding money, and when the police are called in he takes out his anger on innocent people. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/12/1977)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Train Robbers (1973)
W: Burt Kennedy D: Burt Kennedy With John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George, Bobby Vinton, Ricardo Montalban. A rough rider agrees to help a beautiful widow recover gold stolen from her late husband, so she can return it to the people he stole it from.
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| [CBS 9:30] Alice [Reg]: The Bundle
Season 1, episode 23 W: Ben Joelson, Art Baer D: Norman Abbott With Tom Mahoney (Travis), Florence Halop (Annie), Michael Keenan. A bag full of money is found in the diner, and everyone is dreaming of ways to spend it -- but Alice is the only one who wants to find the owner. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/19/1977)
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| [CBS 10:00] Switch [Reg]: Heritage Of Death
Season 2, episode 24 W: Leigh Vance D: Ivan Dixon With Ocean Tyson (Benjamin Kafulubiti), Earl Maynard (Labinja), Moses Gunn (Alexo), Lola Falana (Armistice Simpson), Roger Aaron Brown (Col. Radburn), Malik Carter (Omar Deans). Pete and Mac find that babysitting with a four-year-old can be a dangerous business when the child is the son of the deposed leader of an African nation. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/3/1977)
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| [ABC 10:00] Most Wanted [Reg]: The Dutchman
Season 1, episode 21 W: Stephen Kandel D: Don Medford With Rip Torn (Van Wyck), Belinda Montgomery (Ann Del Amo), Paul Koslo (Jimmy), Burr DeBenning (Ray), Vernon Weddle (Crill), Ben Frank (Blake). A ruthless cane-wielding ex-con heads a gang which uses laser rifles to commit supermarket robberies. (Last show of the series.)
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